Refrigerator.



G. B. DOUD.

REFRIGERATOR.

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APPLICATlON FILED JULY 3.19m.

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Application led .1' uly 3, 1914.

To all whom/ may concern.' j j Be it known that I, .Grues B. DoUD, acitizen of the United States, resident of Vinona, in the county ofvWinona and State of Minnesota, have made a certain new and usefulInvention in Refrigerators; and l declare the following to be a` full,clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters orfigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the refrigerator on the line 1-1 Fig.2.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2 Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the trays.

Fig. 4: is a detail perspective view of one of the strap hinges.

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the hinge pintles.

Fig. 6 is a detail section on the line 6 6 Fig. 1.

The invention has relation to an improvement in refrigerators, and itconsists in the novel construction and combination of parts, ashereinafter set forth.

rlhe object 0f the invention, primarily, is to provide quadrant-formshelves of maximum capacity, which when swung outwardlyv through an arcof ninety degrees .may be slid upwardly and removed.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 2 indicates the case, having achamber provided with a back wall 3 and two side walls 4, 4, whichextend vertically upward sheer from the bottom to the top, the frontwall of the casing being provided with an opening 5 for a hinged door 6.

In the chamber are swinging trays 8, arranged in series one aboveanother, these trays being of quadrant contour and hinged usually to thejamb of the doorway. The straight radial sides 9 of each tray are nearlyas long as the doorway is wide, and are at right angles with each other,being connected by a curved wall 12, which is provided with a number ofopenings 13 for the passage of air, said openings being preferablycomparatively large and arranged in zig-Zag relation, in order toprovide for better circulation of the air. The bottom of the trayconsists of a grating 14, and its Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2*?, 19117.

serial no. 848,929.

side walls are preferably made integral, of sheet metal. Each tray has ahinge eye 15, usually made of strap metal, the central portion of thestrap being bent into eye form and the strap branches being in contactto form a. short shank 16 from the eye to their right-angular divergenceat a point 17 just inside the angle of the tray wall, these branchesfrom this point extending, one, 18, in the plane of the shank, and theother, 19, at right angles thereto. There are preferably two hinge eyes,one above the other, to each tray. The short shank is of a length equalto the thickness of and extends through a slot 21 in the wall of thetray at one side and immediately adjacent to the angular bend thereof,in bracing engagement with the walls or edges of the slot 21, thestraight branch 18 being solidly riveted or comiected to the front wallof the tray and the right-angle branch to its lateral wall. These hingemembers are therefore strongly fastened to the walls of the tray and,extending along the same in parallel relation, serve to brace the wallsand hold them from sagging. The complementary pintle members 22 of thehinges are arranged in vertical series and secured to the inner part ofthe jamb of the casing doorway, having reduced, laterally offset lowerportions from which the pintles extend upwardly. rlhe shank and body ofeach hinge eye is offset laterally in such manner that the outer sidesof both radial walls of each shelf are made substantially tangentialthereto, the top of each hinge pintle being spaced apart from the bottomof the lower reduced portion of the hinge member 22 next thereabove by adistance slightly greater than the thickness of a hinge eye 15, so thatwhen the lower tray is swung outward through the doorway it can becleared from the tray above it, being in this way easily disconnected bylifting it from the pintle or from the casing members of the hinges forremoval when required, and when turned back into the chamber of therefrigerator the offset shank 16 and the branch 18 in line therewith arebrought inward to position just back of and parallelto the door whenclosed. As stated, two hinge eyes are usually provided for each tray,these eyes engaging separate slots 21 of the tray and pivoting uponseparate hinge pintles, the tray being in this way better supportedagainst sagging. rlhese movable quadrant-form shelves located in rear ofsaid doorway, in close relation to i trays are designed to facilitateinspection and access to their contents, and as they'are independentlymovable and removable, tend to keep the contents of the refrigerator inorderly arrangement and to provide against unnecessary inflow of warmair through the Y doorway.

When the trays are removed from the refrigerator chamber, leaving thesheer vertical walls, there is no obstruction to minute inspection ofthese walls, and thorough cleansing is facilitated.

What I claim is In a refrigerator, a casing having a doorway and alateral wall provided with a vertical series of hinge members havingrespectively laterally offset reduced lower portions and hinge pintlesprojecting upwardly from said reduced portions and spaced apart fromeach other, a hinged door engaging said doorway, a series of overlyingreleach other and having each radial walls,

one of said walls having 'perforations, hingestraps located upon theinner side of and .secured to the radial walls of each shelf, saidstraps each centrally doubled andghaving a short shank of a length equalto the thickness of and engaging the perforations of a radial shelfwall, and hinge eyes spaced apart and located immediately adjacent toand in contact with the shelf corners, said Shanks and said eyeslaterally offset and the outersides Vof both radial walls of each shelftangential tothe hinge eyes relating thereto, the top of each hingepintle being spaced apart from the bottom of the hinge member next`thereabove by a distance slightly greater than the thickness of a hingeeye. Y

In testimony whereof IaliiX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.Y

anais is. Donn.

Witnesses: Y

i Trino. KIRK, I y S. JOHNSON.

Gopics `ot this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingtlie Commissioner fof Patents.

Washington, D. C.

